On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote:
> > Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ?
> >
> > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd
> > like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and
> > reattach to the screen session later to see how it went.
> >
> > Screen should be every sysadmin's best friend. =)
> >
> > Tom
>> Tom, mind providing a link that tells us non-sysadmins how to do this?
He's referring to the misc/screen port. The man page is pretty
comprehensive. It basically gives you "virtual" terminal sessions that
you can attach, detach and reattach a client to without disturbing the
underlying session.
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